Appointments The Hoofbeats of the Carolina Foothills
Volume 5 Issue 2
F R E E November 2010
Addicted to roping Landrum vet Sean Eastman
Sean Eastman of Twin Oaks Veterinary Clinic in Landrum ropes a steer in a competition. (photo submitted) by Barbara Childs
As a kid, Sean Eastman watched westerns on Saturday afternoons, and he says he always wanted to know how to handle a rope like his heroes on the screen. So when he got the opportunity to learn how to rope later in life, he jumped at it, and he's been addicted ever since. "I'm pretty sure it's an official disease," he said. "It's like a drug,
an arena and go and I'm pretty sure watch," Eastman Spotlight I would need a 12said. "The sport instep program to on Local volves a predeterquit!" Equestrians mined course set up Eastman still with balloons. The competes in team rider negotiates the roping when he's away from his practice. He also course, shooting the balloons with a loves cowboy mounted shooting, .45 action single caliber revolver. It's which he was exposed to out west. a timed event, so the faster the bet"If you have never seen cowboy ter. People of all ages and families mounted shooting you should find participate and it's great."
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Eastman has been involved with animals since childhood. He was born in Boiling Springs, N.C. His parents never owned land or horses, but the neighbors had horses, and he was fascinated by them. "There was a dirt road across the street, and the Daves family lived at the end of the dirt road. I would go down there and ride horses with
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